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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:58PM
I attribute the decline in the care for truth to the monopolization of the mainstream media, and the retreat of control over the news to organizational levels where they don't actually deal with it, they only deal with money. I noticed this happening strongly when a local newspaper chain (already it was only weakly controlled by those who cared about news) was bought by a group that had the name of a liquor company, though I didn't bother to find out if that was really their main business. The quality of the news declined rapidly.
OK, so the traditional sources of news have become extremely poor, after being poor. Don't think that people don't notice this, but many people need to believe that they know what's really going on. So when they become disillusioned with the current news ("They can't even get ... right.", where "..." is something that they can check, or already know.) then they go looking for other sources to trust. Some will pick this source, and some that, but the crucial thing about the new source is it doesn't report anything that they can check, so they don't become disillusioned.
Well, that's my theory, and it's why I became disillusioned with the local news. Unfortunately for me I believe in epistemology, and so if a new source reports news that it has no way of knowing, I rapidly become disillusioned with it. So I then to believe mainly technical publications, and those that are careful in their wording when they are reporting that "my theory is that...".
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